Example sentences of "[subord] it had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 2 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 4 | It looked tidier , neater than it had the previous day . |
| 5 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 6 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 7 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 8 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 9 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 10 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 11 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 12 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 13 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 14 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 15 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 16 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 17 | The strongest weapon in the diehard armoury was the press , for it had the reliable support of the Morning Post , National Review and Spectator , and intermittent backing from the papers of Beaverbrook , Rothermere and Northcliffe . |